Manage BDC Permissions in Internet Situation I have exactly the same issue. I have a BDC application that pulls data from SQL2005 that works fine for authenticated users but I can't get to work for anonymous users. Any advise on the the best methods and practices to enable anonymous access to BDC web parts and data would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Jim Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Missing Workflow in Designer me three. Workflow still executing, can see it in the IE interface "change workflow settings" but it's not under workflows for the site. I'm using WSS 3.0, not MOSS, and the trial version of SharePoint designer, version 12.0.4518.1014. Thanks. Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Site Defenition I would like to have a site defenition that will create a site and have a set of document libraries by default with all document library views set to explorer view by default and have 2 groups with sitename + "members" and sitename + "owners". HOw I can achieve this
Regards Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

PROBLEMs configuring Office SharePoint Server 2007 Hi All,
The
configuration wizard failed while I was setting up the server. The
error was "failed to create sample data" (step 8 of 10). So I changed
the Network DTC Access to "Allow Remote Clients."
Now, I tried rerun the wizard, I am still getting the following"
'Config failed
Failed to create sample data
An exception of type
ststem.invalidoperationexception was thrown. Additional exception
information: no content database was available for this operation.
.....to create a content database, click "content databases" on the
Application Management page......'
I
tried to access SharePoint 3.0 Central admin >
http://[serverName]:adminport and I am getting an "unexpected error"
There is no other info available.
What did I do wrong
Thanks in advance!!!! Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Upgraded Site still using v2 folders Hi , I have 10 sites in sharepoint 2003 ,created using custom site defination.I have migrated all using gradual migration approach. Following actions coverd by me during migration 1.) Same layout/custom site defination created in 2007. 2.) Same id assigned in webtemp*.xml that exist in 2003 custom site defination. 3.) Upgradation file has been created and deployed in upgrade\config file . After upgradation sites are still showing v2 layout and pointing list folders available in custom site defination of 2003.I have gone through the WSS SDK and come to know that if upgradation path is missing this kind of problems comes. Help me to sort out this problem . Thanks , Sourabh Khatri. Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Opening a WSS 3.0 site using SharePoint Designer Sundar i tried installing the frontpage server extensions from IIS for particularly the sharepoint 3.0 site btu i got some error which says that: FPSE 2002 are not compatible for WSS 3.0 site. And when i tried installing it again i could not find the option to install it again.
Is there any way to open the site using SharePoint Designer.
Regards,
neel. Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Outlook agenda in MOSS 2007 Hey, I have a outlook agenda with birthday's of employees. I want to share that outlook agenda on sharepoint so that it shows birthday's of our employees. I did manage to share a sharepoint agenda in outlook but not the other way around. I did use the OWA webpart for my agenda but to use this everyone has to login when the page loads. My question is: Is it possible to share a Outlook agenda on sharepoint without other ppl to login. Our sharepoint does use NT authority login. Any help would be appriciated. Greetz Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Navigation over different Site Collection I have 3 site collections in my environment
1) Corporate Home 2) HR 3) Sales
HR and Sales both should be in the global navigation of Corporate Sitecollection. Is there a way to do this through code instead of doing it manually.
I have tried to write a webpart where i can pass the site collection url and it will generate the menu based on the map of that site collection
Like On Corp Site collection home page modify master page so that it will show me Corp | HR | Sales
Each will have flyover as below.
HR> > Benefits >401k > Off Days > Insurance > Dental > Medical > Vision
We want to automate it. Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Excel - Define name combining 2 Names You need to define the name based on the range the chart is covering and not the chart itself. The range need to be a simple range.
If your filter is in G1 and the chart covers H2:M20 you need to define a name with =$G$1 M$20 and not =$G$1,$H2 M20
Dany Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Folder Permission Inheritance Problem - Inconsistent unique permission Good day,
Below are the steps to reproduce the problem
Create 3 custom access group in the site ("Group1", "Group2", "Group3")
Created a document library ("Doc").
Created a folder ("F1") in "Doc"
Remove default permissions and added permissions "Group1", "Group2", "Group3" to "F1"
Created a subfolder ("F11") in "F1" with inherited permission "Group1", "Group2", "Group3"
Removed the inherited permission in subfolder "F11" and remove "Group1", leaving "Group2", "Group3"
Back to folder "F1", removed permission "Group1" and "Group2", leaving "Group3"
Back to subfolder "F11", verified permission. "Group2" was removed and "Group3" remained
At folder "F1", added permission "Group1", become "Group1", "Group3"
Back to subfolder "F11", verified the permission. "Group3" remained and unaffected
Although the permission inheritance was broken at Step 6, somehow the permission removal on folder "F1" still affects subfolder "F11". However, If a new permission is added on folder "F1", it didn't reflect back to subfolder "F11". I tried with 2nd level subfolder "F111" and it seems like some inconsistency in between too.
It's MOSS 2007 Enterprise Ed. with the latest updates installed on the WIndows SharePoint Services 3.0 through Windows Update.
Is it some misconfiguration that missed out or is it an issue Been tried to search for solution in Internet. But seems like no posts that mention this issue.
Thanks a lot.
SonicWave Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

SharePoint Look & Feel for custom pages Thanks buddy! that helps. I will try these over the weekend and will post the updates.
On a side note, I hate clients who just want to use Share Point for the sake of using Share Point. Yes, I am dealing with such client these days
and for sure I would not want you to get killed, so I would say "You are the man" Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

missing &Source= on URL/request line On my development server, when I click on a hyperlinked forms document, the eventual URL that opens has a few parameters added to the end of it, 'OpenIn' and 'Source'.
On my test server (deployed to with a site backup/restore) the same hyperlink on the same view results in a URL without the Source parameter.
I assume it is a configuration issue, but I can't think where it might be. Has anyone else come across this, or have a bright idea for me Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Can you suggest a 3rd party alternative to the RichHtmlField Control I am convinced that the html editing tools with this control are not ready for prime time. It simply does not work as I would expect. It's too buggy.
So I am on the hunt for a replacement. Any suggestions
Tom C. Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Special characters and paged grouped views Hi all
I'v run into a strange behaviour of WSS 2.0. Here is the scenario:
- I have a view of a custom list that is grouped. - The field that is used for grouping is a lookup field to a choice field in another custom list - The custom list contains 100's of items, so it is paged
What happens is the following:
- When the lookup field used for grouping starts with any of the Swedish characters A, A or O that group doesn't show in the view - If I increase the object limit, so that all items fit into one page, the group shows
Is this a bug in WSS 2.0 or am I missing something here
Thanks on forehand for any help I can get!
BR Malin Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

No Please Help-Server Farm Configuration Not Complete No, you can have indexing service on the front-end machine. This is actually the only option for a small farm (WFE + SQL).
I would make sure that MOSS is installed using the Complete option in its setup. If you choose WFE, the setup just won't install application services (such as Search) on the box.
Hope this helps, Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

It does not work for me I have created the same page - and still 401 error
I am accessing with System account or with account which has full control.
I am using windows authentication in my application (and in SP) - do you do the same
what you mean no "AD"
The user I am suing is domain user
Please explain more - it's very important to me if I can cause it work without complicated settings of enableing delegation for users.
I Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

SharePoint Shared Service Provider won't open - get a Cannot Dispaly the Webpage in IE If I log into Central Administration, go to Share Services Administration, and click on my Shared Service Provider (SSPDefault) it does not open. Instead I get a "Cannot Display the webpage" error in IE.
Any help is appreciated,
Jn Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

[WSS 3.0] lookup field: get information from large list I have created a custom lookup field type. This type sends query to the server after a button click and searches for data by TextBox value. Then the results are displayed in a ListBox. User picks a result from listbox and saves it afterwards. But with this custom lookup field type the workflow doesn't work. Why
For now I have found another solution for this issue, by inputing data from webpart. But is there any other solutions in WSS 3.0, for picking data from a large list and saving it in another list as lookup field should do. A solution I tried with WSS 3.0 lookup field is very slow, because it tries to get all data from a server on every key press. Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Turn Off Hover Over Screen Tips on Browser form There's no way, at least what I've seen, to turn off the tooltip popups for controls which are "required", but there is a way to turn them off for Data Validation cases:
To do so, you'll need to edit the manifest.xsf file with a text editor. You'll see something like the following:
<xsf:errorCondition match="/my:Fields" expressionContext="my:Item" expression=". = &quot;&quot;"> <xsf:errorMessage type="modeless" shortMessage="Cannot be blank"></xsf:errorMessage> </xsf:errorCondition>
Change the shortMessage to "" (you need to leave the attribute in, though) and the error message won't appear. I turned off "required" for all my components and created custom Data Validation rules instead. Once I removed the shortMessage, everything worked fine.
Tip: Change the message within InfoPath to something like $$$$$, then do a find/replace to replace $$$$$ with nothing.
Hope this helps Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Change the name/URL of a Publishing page Hi
Is it possible to change the name/URL of a Publishing page once it's been created By using the API, of course - I know how to change it in the Sharepoint GUI
Cheers,
Andreas Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Modifying Approvers I just needed to perform a sanity check and ask a simple question here. You've probably already thought about this and have a good reason for not using it, but here it is anyway... Have you considered using OnTaskChanged to change the AssignedTo property when the task approver changes If you don't need to support a change in the total number of approvers, then this could be much easier. Putting an OnTaskChanged event in a while loop inside your replicator after the CreateTask activity and making your workflow modification form a task edit form would allow your originators to use the edit task option to change the approver for each task (you probably already have this for the approver's part - you would just need to use before & after properties to detect what was changed in order to determine appropriate responses). It means your edit task page has to have logic to detect who is editing the task so that originators can't perform approval actions - but changing the approver seems to more specifically be a task edit than a workflow modification. It would probably also mean that the approver & originator edit functionalities would be modularized into server or ascx controls to make them easier to swap out based on the task editor's role. The one caveat is that I don't know if Sharepoint will send out the emails you might expect when the AssignedTo property is altered. Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Activating Excel Services in MOSS I get the error message: "Some or all identity references could not be translated" when I tried to activate Excel Services in SharePoint 2007 & it does not let me activate it. What can I do Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

InfoPath crashes after trying to add data connection Hi All,
I have created a view in my database which selects and ID and Name columns from a table. When I try to add a data connection in infopath linked to this view Infopath crashes. The following is information from the event log:
"Faulting application infopath.exe, version 12.0.4518.1014, stamp 45428209, faulting module ipdesign.dll, version 12.0.4518.1014, stamp 4542826f, debug 0, fault address 0x003786fa.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
I have created other views that read from other tables and these one do nothave a problem....Any suggestions are very much appreaciated.
Mario Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

SharePoint on SQL Server 2008 Hi
Is it possible to connect SharePoint 2007 to a SQL Server 2008
Is there any documentation on that Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

Update for Microsoft WSS 3.0 (KB932091) I tried to install the KB932091 update to a very new install of Sharepoint yesterday and the patch stuck around 80% done. I had a lot of Sharepoint events in the log, but couldn't find anything to explain what happend or how to fix it. I tried all the standard reboot/repair processes, but my Sharepoint install was unresponsive.
I am now forced to reload the entire server from scratch since nothing will fix my once working Sharepoint. It looks like the patch corrupted or deleted the MSDE database and the 'default.asp' page, maybe all Sharepoint pages.
For your own sake, stay away from this patch. Nice job Microsoft. Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

State Machine Workflow modification form I'm trying to build a workflow modification form for MOSS that allows a user to reassign workflow (InfoPath form) tasks to other users (in case another user is away, etc.). The ECM Sample Starter Kit has an example that uses an InfoPath Modification form to do just that. However, it is sequential, and I'm using a state machine workflow. Looking at the code for the example, I can see that it has an 'EnableWorkflowModification' step to, well, enable a modification form. I looked this up on the MSDN site, and found that the pages I saw ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms550177.aspx and ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms480794.aspx ) discuss the 'scope' of the enabled form. However, scopes don't seem to make much sense in the context of a state machine workflow. The modification form would need to be enabled for a state, not a scope. There are no 'IEventActivity' steps to block the progress of the workflow while it is in a scope. Thus, 'rest' condition of the workflow is in a StateActivity, waiting for an event - and it is only in this condition that a user would have a chance of actually using a modification form. Could you clarify how I'm meant to use Modification forms in SharePoint 2007 state machine workflow Or is this too specific to SharePoint Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

SendEmail activity Do i need to set the credential in order to use SPUtility.SendEmail because i remember last time i needed to set it when i use the System.Net.Mail.
Or worse come to worse, i use the System.Net.Mail to send email but any idea how can i get the SMTP server name from sharepoint Tag: SharePoint - Enterprise Content Management Item-level Permissions on Lists SharePoint Products and Technologies

In a custom list library, Is it possible to restrict users viewing the items that are not owned by them or assigned to them

Example:

I have a group of people including A,B,C,D,E. They are all contributors.

User A creates a Confidential item and starts Approval WF on it, assigning to D and E for approval. Only A, D and E should see and edit that item and its contents.

Actually in Settings\Advanced Settings\Item-Level Permissions we can select ¡°Only their own¡± option at Read Access and Edit Access sections. However doing so also restricts them viewing the items assigned to them (e.g. approval workflow).